Abstract

Beginning from the rarity of kerosene because of the increasing of its price, briqutte’s businessmen use the waste of Sugar Cane Factories, namely Blotong as an alternative fuel made of briquette. Remembering that fuel is the main need in fulfilling society’s and small industries’s daily need. This research has a purpose to know the process of how to make briquette based on blotong in Druju village, Sumbermanjing Wetan district, Malang regency.
This kind of research is done purposely in Druju village, Sumbermanjing Wetan district, Malang regency, because in the region, most of the people who live there are sugar cane farmers, so it can make them easy to get basic commodity from sugar factory because there are cooperations. Secondly, the region is the only one which has briquette industry using sugar cane waste, namely blotong. Thirdly, lately wood as fuel is hard to find because there are so many natural disasters that need to be repaired.
Data analysis method is done by two approaches, namely descriptive analysis approach to know the process of briquette making based on blotong. Quantitative analysis consists if income analysis to know how much profit which is got by the businessmen in one production and the analysis of Break Even Point (BEP) to know production grade produced and the impasse price in the briquette making based on blotong.
From the result or the research and data analysis which are done in briquette business based on blotong in Druju village, it can be concluded that the income received by briquette businessmen based on blotong per day in doing the production process is Rp 4.320.000 while the net earning per day is Rp 2.099.383,33. The impasse production of briquette business based on blotong is 136.726,9 kg. while tehe average production per day is 3.600 kg. the price sell average of briquette based on blotong is Rp 1.200,- per kilogram.